Word: bowness
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House crew is friendlier than its regimented cousin across the river. In a varsity boat, oarsmen signal they are ready to row by barking, "bow, two, three..." House oarsmen are more akin to the Mouseketeers: "Brad! Kathleen! Liz! Liam...
...assimilated. And yet, while China may have vanquished the country of Tibet, it cannot kill the Tibetan spirit. Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans throughout the world, as well as adherents of Tibetan Buddhism of all nationalities, still recognize the Dalai Lama as their leader. And many non-Tibetan Buddhists bow down before him as well. He is, perhaps, the world's most powerful living representative of the Asian religious ideal...
...This disarticulation was what Lautrec attempted, and one still marvels at the speed and accuracy of his notation, whether it was real (in his sketch pads) or feigned (in the finished theatrical lithographs). The impression that his drawing of Jane Avril's kick or Yvette Guilbert's bow took as little time as the movement itself does not hold for long: one's admiration for Lautrec's craft, for the eggshell delicacy of spattered lithographic ink or the exact placement of a complementary color, overrides it. But it lasts just long enough to give a sense...
...hastily scheduled NSC sessions were called to help the President decide on what action he might take if Moscow refused to bow to U.S. demands for a change in the status quo in Cuba. Such a refusal appeared increasingly likely, as Vance had made absolutely no progress during talks earlier in the week in Manhattan with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Only two hours after saying goodbye to Gromyko on Thursday, Vance was back in Washington to brief Carter at the White House. Immediately after that, the two men headed for the Cabinet Room and the first...
Pressures on Meany to bow out had been building the past several months. The crusty autocrat was grief-stricken last March by the death of Eugenia, his wife of 59 years. Then, stepping out of a golf cart, he wrenched his knee and had a severe reaction to cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington...